Partner Solutions Architect

Light Inc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Light Inc. is seeking a Senior Partner Solutions Architect to manage a portfolio of partner-led implementations. You will balance client needs with partner capabilities, ensuring delivery standards from kickoff to completion and driving certification of partner consultants.

You will operate at a senior level with Finance Directors and CFOs, translating finance requirements into platform design and ensuring successful, on-time deployments across multiple entities.

Qualifications

• Hands-on roles on real implementations; not just theoretical ERP usage.
• Fluent in accounting; able to discuss consolidation, intercompany eliminations, accruals, and reporting.
• Managed a portfolio with multiple deals and stakeholders; clear oversight.
• Commercial or client-facing experience beyond delivery (implied by role).

Responsibilities

• Own partner delivery across your portfolio.
• Check every deal through Light's delivery gates; ensure on time and standard.
• Run weekly check-ins with each partner on progress, blockers, risks and go-lives.
• Track partner capacity and staffing; assess certification and workload.
• Build and own the partner delivery forecast; support sales with a confident yes.

Skills

Finance transformation

ERP implementation

Finance advisory

Accounting fluency

Multi-entity consolidation

Intercompany eliminations

Portfolio management

Client-facing experience

Education

Degree in finance, accounting, business, or a related field

Job description

Retire the ERP Light exists to replace factory-era ERPs with software that feels alive. Our Smart Financial Platform gives modern, global companies superpowers - automated accounting, real-time reporting, and financial flows that move at the speed of the business. We build with our customers, ship fast, and obsess over craft. In a short time, Light has gone from idea to the operating core for leading companies like Lovable, Legora, and Fuse Energy. We're an early team defining a new software category. Think engineers who love debits and credits, designers who care about reconciliation states, and operators who treat finance as a product. If you're excited to modernise how companies run money, you're in the right place. Backed by world-class investors including Balderton and Atomico and advised by industry titans, we're building category-defining products with the freedom to ship ambitiously and own outcomes. Come help us make Light the global default for next-gen finance.

About the role

Light doesn't implement Light alone anymore. Accounting and consulting firms, from regional champions to global names, are building Light implementation practices. Someone has to make sure those practices deliver to Light's standard on every deal. That's you.

You'll be one of the first Partner Solutions Architects at Light, sitting between our partners, their clients and our own implementation team. Most of your week goes on running a portfolio of partner-led implementations. You know which deals are on track and which are drifting. You know whether each partner has the people and capacity to take on the next one, and you're the person Light goes to for an answer on any partner deal. You also get new partner consultants trained and certified. When a partner hits something new, hard, or beyond their capacity, you step in and do the work yourself.

This is not a training role. We want a consultant with commercial instincts, someone who has delivered finance implementations, can hold your own with a Financial Controller, and can manage a book of delivery the way a good account manager manages a book of revenue. Your audience is partner implementation teams, the leaders who run them, and their clients' Controllers, Finance Directors and CFOs. They're senior, technical and short on time, and they expect you to tell them straight when something won't work.

Key responsibilities

• Own partner delivery across your portfolio
• Check every deal through Light's delivery gates: did the partner get through it, on time, to the right standard?
• Run weekly check-ins with each partner on progress, blockers, risks and upcoming go-lives
• Track partner capacity and staffing: who they have, who's certified, what they can take on next, and when
• Build and own the partner delivery forecast so Sales can always tell a customer yes, with a start date we can stand behind
• Represent Light on partner deals from day one: run kickoffs with the partner and client, and drive data collection until the partner team is ready to take over
• Spot deliveries going off track before the client does, and intervene
• Report clearly to Light leadership on partner delivery health, capacity and quality, so nobody ever has to ask "who owns this deal?"
• Get partner teams trained and certified
• Bring new partner consultants through Light's enablement path, from self-paced curriculum and instructor-led sessions through to certification
• Schedule the training, track progress and hold the certification bar firm
• Teach clearly, whether the room holds a partner associate or a client CFO
• Feed what you learn on live deals back into the curriculum, the playbooks and the product
• Step in as the expert when partners can't
• Take on consulting work directly when a partner meets something new or complex, or runs out of capacity: a consolidation edge case, an unusual migration, a tricky entity structure
• Coach partners on turning finance requirements into platform design: chart of accounts, entity structure, consolidation logic, reporting
• Know Light well enough to demo any workflow credibly and answer the hard configuration and accounting questions partners bring you

Experience & qualifications

• Degree in finance, accounting, business, or a related field
• 5+ years in finance transformation, ERP implementation or finance advisory: Big 4, a finance-focused boutique, or a vendor-side professional services team (NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Workday Financials)
• You've done the work: hands-on roles on real implementations, not "I've used an ERP"
• You're fluent in accounting and can hold your own with a Controller on multi-entity consolidation, intercompany eliminations, accruals, and statutory vs management reporting. A qualified accountant is a plus, not a requirement
• You've managed a portfolio, not just a project: many moving deals, many stakeholders, one clear view of where everything stands
• Commercial or client-facing experience beyond delivery is a st